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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who protect caravans but are in lesser demand than wizards are?

2. What plays an important role in the great battle in the library of Unseen University that occurs later in the novel?

3. Who cannot remember the library ever being cleaned but allows Esk to do it?

4. Which two of the following are one and the same?

5. What does Esk find that turns out to be a less expensive and wider-ranging means of transportation than river barges?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Treatle's caravan arrives?

2. How is the wizard apprentice process different in Esk and Simon's time from previously?

3. What happens in the library involving Simon?

4. Who are the inhabitants of the Shades?

5. What does Granny pretend to do for the person in charge of the laundry operations?

6. When Granny enters the Great Hall and approaches Cutangle, what does he do?

7. What is the nightmare that Esk has about the Strange Things when Granny finds her?

8. What happens to students who fail to become wizards?

9. Why does Granny tell Esk not to draw attention to herself through magic?

10. When Esk fights with the Things, what does she realize about their bodies?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write a short essay analyzing the different emotional changes of Esk, Simon, and Granny, looking at similar events and exploring how they affect each of them quite differently.

Essay Topic 2

When Esk goes to the university, she is not immediately accepted because wizards are male. She faces institutionalized discrimination. What is institutionalized discrimination? How is it portrayed in "Equal Rites"? How does the author Terry Pratchett lampoon the institution of higher learning? Describe.

Essay Topic 3

Create a brief portrait study of Esk. What does she look like? What are her positive personality traits? What are some of her negative characteristics?

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